Портрет Дориана Грея / The Picture of Dorian Gray. Оскар Уайльд

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      “Go away, Harry,” cried Dorian, “I want to be alone. Can’t you see that my heart is breaking?” Hot tears came to his eyes as Lord Henry and Hallward left the theatre.

      When it was over, Dorian Gray rushed to see Sibyl Vane. The girl was standing there alone, with a look of extraordinary happiness on her face.

      “How badly I acted tonight, Dorian!” she cried.

      “Horribly!” he answered, staring at her. “It was dreadful. Are you ill? You have no idea what it was. You have no idea what I suffered.”

      The girl smiled, “Dorian, don’t you understand?”

      “Understand what?” he asked, angrily.

      “Why I was so bad tonight. Why I will always be bad. Why I will never act well again.”

      “You are ill, I suppose. When you are ill, you shouldn’t act. You make yourself ridiculous. My friends were bored. I was bored.”

      “Dorian, Dorian,” she cried, “before I knew you, acting was the one important thing in my life. It was only in the theatre that I lived. I thought that it was all true. Tonight, for the first time, I became conscious that the Romeo was hideous, and old, and painted, that the moonlight in the orchard was false, that the scenery was vulgar, and that the words I had to speak were unreal, were not my words, were not what I wanted to say. I saw that I was playing at love. Our love for each other is the only true love. I cannot act anymore because I have found true love. How can I act like Juliet when I do not feel her love? I only feel my love for you, Dorian. Take me away with you, Dorian! I don’t want to be an actress any more.”

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      Примечания

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      Lord Henry Wotton – лорд Генри Уоттон

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      full-length portrait – портрет в полный рост

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      some little distance away – на небольшом расстоянии

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      Basil Hallward – Бэзил Холлуорд

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      Grosvenor – Гросвенор

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      wreaths of smoke – кольца дыма

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      A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England. – Этот портрет вознёс бы тебя много выше всех молодых художников Англии.

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      I have put too much of myself into it. – Я вложил в него слишком много самого себя.

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      you are not in the least like him – ты ничуть на него не похож

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      Dorian Gray – Дориан Грей

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      That entirely depends on how you sit today. – Это зависит от того, как вы сегодня будете позировать.

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      an old Oxford friend of mine – мой старый товарищ по Оксфордскому университету

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      I have just been telling him what a good sitter you were. – Я только что говорил ему, что вы превосходно позируете.

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      I am in Lady Agatha’s black books at present. – Теперь я у леди Агаты на плохом счету.

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      Whitechapel – Уайтчепел

Примечания

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Lord Henry Wotton – лорд Генри Уоттон

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full-length portrait – портрет в полный рост

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some little distance away – на небольшом расстоянии

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Basil Hallward – Бэзил Холлуорд

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Grosvenor – Гросвенор

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wreaths of smoke – кольца дыма

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A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England. – Этот портрет вознёс бы тебя много выше всех молодых художников Англии.

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